rant · moment 7 of 15
Chappelle's Integrity vs. 'Making It Work'
from It's A Small World After All · #79
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5 minTim circles back to the warm-up comic, contrasting him with Dave Chappelle walking away from success out of integrity, then launches into an extended bit about being a mogul/Bavarian castle-owning elite who needs to sacrifice children to maintain their lifestyle.
- 18:26Tim argues that comedy work requires fitting into a system, while some people need to work for themselves.
- 18:52The type who gets passed up for promotion but makes money early and stays with the company—someone with buried resentment.
- 19:43Making something work is just the lowest level—like saying a car works, it runs, it gets you from point A to point B.
- 20:25Dave Chappelle had the epitome of success, felt it was wrong, and threw it away—that's integrity.
- 20:58You can't take the safer road and also get the respect; you can't have both the money and the integrity.
- 21:26People want everything—they want to be the mogul who's also respected, but successful people don't think that way.
- 22:11No successful CEO ever said 'I love business'—they loved money and wanted to make it, often because they'd been poor.
- 22:37Tim riffs on rich elites justifying their lifestyle—the castle costs too much to heat, so they have to keep sacrificing children for capital.
- 23:04The ongoing expense of scraping up orphans and paying off local cops to maintain the pagan ritual and adrenaline supply.
- 23:23Tim concludes the bit: complaining about going to Tulane when you've got all this—you have no idea how good you have it.
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